Roger Highfield
Museum exec, author and journalist. Ex New Scientist Editor and Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph. First person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble.
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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
Archaeologists uncover the remains of a giant rack of skulls beneath downtown Mexico City
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Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls in Tenochtitlan's tzompantli reveal vast scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital
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Rising bedrock below West Antarctica could delay catastrophic ice sheet collapse
Its burden lightening, crust beneath glaciers is rising at a startling pace
Miniature testing of drug pairs on tumor biopsies
Combinations of cancer drugs can be quickly and cheaply tested on tumour cells using a novel device developed by EMBL scientists. The research, reported in Nature Communications on June 22, marks the latest advancement in the field of personalised...
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Directly testing multiple cancer drugs on biopsies - parts of the tumour which have been taken from a patient - is a powerful way to discover which drugs work best, and for whom
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Genetically modified bacteria enlisted in fight against disease
Engineered strains of E. coli and other microbes are being tested in humans to combat a slew of illnesses.
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Companies are testing whether engineered bacteria can treat conditions that affect the brain, liver and other organs. But questions remain about whether microbes’ ability to share DNA with one another will create long-term safety risks
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Towards personalized medicine: One type of data is not enough
To understand the biology of diseased organs researchers can use different types of molecular data.
One of the biggest computational challenges at the moment is integrating these multiple data types.
A new computational method jointly analyses...
Hiking in style in the Dolomites
I am sitting at a table at Rifugio Utia de Bioch, a gastro mountain hut in the Dolomites, tucking into the most sublime roast chicken I’ve tasted, washed down with delicious fizz from Arunda, one...
Western-led research team uncovers lost images from the 19th century using 21st century tech
Art curators will be able to recover images on daguerreotypes, the earliest form of photography that used silver plates, after a team of scientists led by Western University learned how...
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Art curators will be able to recover images on degraded daguerreotypes, the earliest form of photography that used silver plates
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Eric Burdon on Instagram: “Robert Stephenson’s “ROCKET”, the first steam locomotive ever built, returned to Tyneside, for the first time in 156 years. I am here to…”
324 Likes, 22 Comments - Eric Burdon (@officialericburdon) on Instagram: “Robert Stephenson’s “ROCKET”, the first steam locomotive ever built, returned to Tyneside, for the…”
IVF from the male perspective
Ahead of the opening of IVF: 6 Million Babies Later, father Gareth Down shares his experience with IVF and the lesser-told story of the male struggle.
Ideal human or Frankenstein fantasy? Scientist creates 'perfect body' with emu legs & dog heart
As walking, talking mammals, humans sit atop of the evolutionary ladder. But would life be better with emu legs, frog skin and a dog’s heart? Anatomist Alice Roberts explains to RT her far-out quest for the ‘perfect human body’.
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Ideal human or Frankenstein fantasy? See perfect @theAliceRoberts for yourself in @sciencemuseum
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Ancient gibbon from Chinese tomb may be first ape to go extinct since the Ice Age
The 2,200-year-old skull is unlike those of modern gibbons, but some scientists are unsure it’s a new species.
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Ancient gibbon from Chinese tomb may be first ape to go extinct since the Ice Age
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From Manchester to the Great Exhibition of the North
The Great Exhibition of the North opens in Newcastle today, and several objects from our collection will be displayed during the Summer.
T. Rex couldn't stick out its tongue, new research shows
Dinosaurs are often depicted as fierce creatures, baring their teeth, with tongues wildly stretching from their mouths like giant, deranged lizards. But new research reveals a major problem with this classic image: Dinosaurs couldn't stick out their...
Around the world, people have surprisingly modest notions of the 'ideal' life
It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to do so, whether it's the pleasure they feel, how intelligent they are, or how much personal freedom they have. In actuality, people...
The Year Without Summer
To mark this year’s summer solstice Lead Curator of The Sun: Living With Our Star, Harry Cliff, explores the year without summer, and the fear and art it inspired.
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To mark the summer solstice Lead Curator of @sciencemuseum's The Sun: Living With Our Star, @harryvcliff, explores the year without summer, and the fear and art it inspired
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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe closes in on asteroid Ryugu – and captures close-ups
Our view of Ryugu, a half-mile-wide asteroid nearly 180 million miles from Earth, is coming into sharper focus with the approach of the Japanese probe Hayabusa 2.
New World Atlas of Desertification shows unprecedented pressure on planet's resources
The World Desertification Atlas by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre provides the first comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of land degradation at a global level and highlights the urgency to adopt corrective measures.
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New World Atlas of Desertification: over 75% of the Earth's land area is already degraded, and over 90% could become degraded by 2050
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Researchers engineer bacteria to exhibit stochastic Turing patterns
A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University has brought science one step closer to a molecular-level...
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Researchers engineer bacteria to exhibit stochastic Turing patterns that, paradoxically, are stabilized by noise
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